What are people hooking up to their HAVpe’s for good sounding speakers? Obviously Big brands like Bose kill it, but any cheap alternatives with good sound for whole house audio?
What are people hooking up to their HAVpe’s for good sounding speakers? Obviously Big brands like Bose kill it, but any cheap alternatives with good sound for whole house audio?
I have refused to purchase one, hoping a better speaker comes out as I have several rooms to replace google devices in.
I have seen cheap external computer speakers suggested several times, you can often find them dirt cheap at second hand and surplus stores.
If you have Google Nest Minis to replace: There is a project on GitHub which plans to replace the main PCB in these devices (Gen 1 and Gen 2) and make them usable e.g. for Home Assistant.
https://github.com/iMike78/home-mini-v1-drop-in-pcb https://github.com/iMike78/nest-mini-drop-in-pcb
I have some gen 1 devices but at this point the hardware probably is worth replacing I think the mics are going bad on a few I have.
There are 3rd parties that appear to be working on the LACK of music quality speaker with alternatives to the voice only PE.
Can I ask why you refuse? It’s a decent quality product and supports (at least in my opinion) the efforts of an ethical company
As I said the PE has a bad speaker… My existing devices are in 5 different rooms and mostly used for casual music listening. I have no intent on purchasing PEs + external speakers for every room. Particularly to clutter night stands.
I am waiting for something more like this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5yNEhcAjWU
Or something like a amazon dot or google mini with an OK music speaker